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prisoners, including women prisoners and offenders: enhancing technical cooperation and
capacity-building in the implementation of the Nelson Mandela Rules and the Bangkok
Rules”, at which participants discussed relevant issues, including the importance of
advancing technical cooperation to further implement the United Nations Standard Minimum
Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules) and the United Nations
Rules for the Treatment of Women Prisoners and Non-custodial Measures for Women
Offenders (the Bangkok Rules), the importance of addressing prison overcrowding, the use
of non-custodial measures and alternatives to detention, and the need to protect the rights of
prisoners in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic;1
12.
Decides, in accordance with paragraphs 3 and 4 of its resolution 18/18 of 29
September 2011, that the theme of the annual thematic panel discussion under agenda item
10, to be held during its forty-seventh session, will be “Technical cooperation to advance the
right to education and ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning
for all”;
13.
Requests the Office of the High Commissioner to prepare a report, to be
submitted to the Human Rights Council at its forty-seventh session, to serve as a basis for the
panel discussion, on the activities and plans of the Office and relevant United Nations country
teams and agencies and regional organizations to support States’ efforts to promote and
protect the right to education, including those aimed at alleviating the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on the enjoyment of the right to education, ensuring the continuity of education
for all, and addressing educational inequalities, with particular attention given to girls and to
children in the most vulnerable and disadvantaged situations;
14.
Calls upon States, international human rights bodies and mechanisms, relevant
international organizations, national human rights institutions and civil society to share best
practices and make use of the ideas and issues raised in the panel discussion to enhance the
efficiency, effectiveness and policy coherence of technical cooperation and capacity-building
efforts and build multi-stakeholder partnerships in the promotion and protection of the right
to education.
38th meeting
7 October 2020
[Adopted without a vote.]
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See also A/HRC/44/37.
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